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The Zapotec civilization (Be'ena'a "The People"; c. 700 BC–1521 AD) is an indigenous pre-Columbian civilization that flourished in the Valley of Oaxaca in Mesoamerica. Archaeological evidence shows that their culture originated at least 2,500 years ago.
Benito Juarez: Born in Oaxaca to Zapotec parents, Benito Juarez was a liberal politician and leader of La Reforma (The Reform) in Mexico. He was the first president of Mexico of Indigenous origin. Andrés Henestrosa: Zapotec scholar of Zapotec language and culture, [14] later a politician. [15]
Benito Pablo Juárez, of Zapotec origin, was President of Mexico from 1858 to 1872. Over the 300 years of colonialism, many aspects of life became Europeanized. Important government positions were filled by the Spanish and their descendants, and later by elite mestizos, persons of mixed European and indigenous ancestry.
Zapotec civilization, a historical indigenous pre-Columbian civilization and archaeological culture of central Mexico; Zapotec languages, a group of closely related indigenous Mesoamerican languages
In many Indigenous cultures across the Americas, gender is recognized as fluid, contrasting sharply with Western norms.
Mitla is the second-most important archeological site in the state of Oaxaca in Mexico, and the most important of the Zapotec culture. [1] [2] The site is located 44 km from the city of Oaxaca, [3] in the upper end of the Tlacolula Valley, one of the three cold, high valleys that form the Central Valleys Region of the state. [4]
The Zapotec script is the writing system of the Zapotec culture and represents one of the earliest writing systems in Mesoamerica. [1] Rising in the late Pre-Classic era after the decline of the Olmec civilization, the Zapotecs of present-day Oaxaca built an empire around Monte Albán. One characteristic of Monte Albán is the large number of ...
It surveyed Latin American Indigenous communities in Los Angeles and created a map of their language diversity, which shows a concentration of voting-age Zapotec speakers in the Pico-Union and ...